“So, what are you doing now?” my well-meaning friends would ask after I had quit my job with no apparent employment or other occupation in sight. The only honest answer I could give was to say, “I’m rewiring my brain.”

An interview with Diogenes Allen (October 17, 1932 – January 13, 2013), who advocated the Christian tradition as a rich source of spiritual nourishment at a time when many people have been turning away from tradition and showing huge interest in spirituality.